The Effects of Electrochemical Hydrogen Charging on Charpy Impact Toughness and Dry Sliding Tribological Behavior of AISI 316H Stainless Steel

Autor: Ladislav Falat, Lucia Čiripová, Ondrej Petruš, Viktor Puchý, Ivan Petryshynets, Karol Kovaľ, Róbert Džunda
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Crystals, Vol 13, Iss 8, p 1249 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4352
DOI: 10.3390/cryst13081249
Popis: In this work, solution-annealed AISI 316H grade austenitic stainless steel was studied in terms of investigating the electrolytic hydrogen charging effects on the resulting Charpy impact toughness and dry sliding tribological behavior. Conventional Charpy impact bending tests were employed to study the mechanical response of the investigated material to dynamic loading conditions, whereas dry linear sliding tribological tests were used to study material friction and wear behavior. The obtained mechanical and tribological properties were correlated with corresponding fracture and tribological mechanisms, which were determined from morphological observations of fracture surfaces and tribological tracks. The applied testing procedures were individually carried out for the non-hydrogenated, hydrogen-charged, and dehydrogenated material conditions. The observed changes in individual properties due to applied hydrogen charging were rather small, which indicated the good resistance of solution-annealed AISI 316H steel against material degradation in currently used electrolytic hydrogenation conditions.
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